Why did Michael Phelps laugh during the National Anthem Tuesday night?

Japan’s Masato Sakai and Hungary’s Tamas Kenderesi overtook Le Clos in the final 50 metres to take the silver and bronze medals respectively.

Biles, Lauren Hernandez, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian and Aly Raisman also gave retiring national team coordinator Martha Karolyi powerful performances on all the apparatuses.

A celebratory occasion for a Thai Olympic bronze medal winner’s family has turned somber – the athlete’s grandmother collapsed and died minutes before he won the third place in the 56-kilogram weightlifting category in Rio.

In the other big race Tuesday night, America’s latest swim darling Ledecky won the gold medal in the 200-meter freestyle, considered her toughest event.

Phelps got off to a rousing start at the Rio Games by leading his 4×100 freestyle team to the gold medal on Sunday.

Apparently, Michael wanted to show Le Clos that he is still the best swimmer in the world and the title he won in 2012, at the London Olympic Games was just a pure casualty.

Uh oh. When NBC ran a split screen picture of an inert Phelps in the waiting area while introducing the women competing in the 200-meter freestyle race, the fear was that the network was firing up the hype again.

Phelps, who would have had four successive wins in the 200 butterfly but for that London race, has now amassed a record-extending 25 Olympic medals. “I had a similar expression when I encountered a moth in my house”, NBC soccer announcer Arlo White said.

Sunday night it produced a world record for Ledecky and showcased Phelps nearly singlehandedly putting the USA men at the top of the podium in the 4×100 freestyle relay with a scintillating second leg that clocked in at 47.12. Cseh was still second while Le Clos had passed Seto for third.

Like I said, Phelps wasn’t having ANY of that this time around. Phelps announced his retirement after the 2012 Olympics. “Took me right back to Camden Yards”. Inexplicably, the U.S. Olympic icon broke out in a fit of laughter. “I am still shocked, to be honest”, – Japan rugby sevens player Lomano Lemeki stunned by his team’s win over New Zealand. But that only made her narrow victory that much sweeter. “That was one of my goals”, she said. The remaining 36 nations represented on the leader board by the close of day four of Rio 2016 have won four or fewer medals at the Summer Olympic thus far.

PELE IMPROVING: Pele tweeted that he hopes to appear at the closing ceremony after missing the opening because of his health.